BLIND DATE
The artist duo prepared the silver-blue BMW for an art exhibition in 2006, filled the interior up to the headrests with water and placed it in the urban space. Stefanie Zoche said of Blind Date: “In 2006, the effects of the climate crisis were still barely noticeable in Germany, and the topic received little attention. Blind Date referred to media images of flood disasters, which we now see more and more frequently. The reversal of these media images creates a paradoxical situation: the water is in the supposedly protective interior and would figuratively reach up to the driver’s neck. This reversal and the placement in the middle of the city center make it possible to experience at first hand that the car, a symbol of individual mobility and progress, is a victim of its own emissions. Blind Date thus links one of the causes of the climate catastrophe with the resulting consequences. I never expected the work to still be relevant almost 20 years later: I think it’s extremely frustrating that CO2 emissions continue to rise worldwide, even though the first climate conference was held back in 1979!